Prosthetic Physical Therapy

Prosthetic Physical Therapy is a medical career in which a physical therapist helps someone who has just received a prosthetic limb after an amputation. Amputation is the removal of a limb by trauma, medical illness, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb. A prosthetic is an artificial limb made for a person who is requesting.Prosthetic Physical Therapists help patients get used to using there prosthetic, helping them put it on and taking it off, check for infections, and help manage pain. Physical Therapy is about exercising the dedicated muscle in a healthy, safe, and supervised way so walking or picking something can be a normal thing again for the patient.
To be able to receive a Prosthetic Physical Therapist license you are required to go through certain classes and earn degrees in the department. A graduate degree on a doctoral level under physical therapy is the first step. That is the first four years. The second step is a state required license, which then leads to the final license. It takes seven years overall to become a Prosthetic …show more content…
The hours they work a week depends on what time the office opens and closes at. Typical offices hours will be from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Patients are not going to want to come in early in the morning and late at night. Most offices are open five days a week, only some are open to patients on the weekend. A typical work day will consist of helping four to eight patients a day, each patient is at a different level so some may take longer. An average appointment in an hour. After the patient is done it is the therapist's job to take notes and file them on the patient's progress. The therapist's job is also knowing what exercises are the most critical to have done in the office and which ones the patients could easily do at